Country News
Short articles covering a specific situation in a country of origin. Most often reporting on specific human rights abuses or conflict situations.
- Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) 1
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- Asylum Aid 102
- Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement 9
- Child Soldiers International 1
- Committee to Protect Journalists 2,785
- Council of Europe: Parliamentary Assembly 1
- Equal Rights Trust 2
- EurasiaNet 2,144
- Forum 18 2,158
- Freedom from Torture 1
- Freedom House 1
- Germany: Federal Office for Migration and Asylum 322
- Hague Conference on Private International Law 2
- HelpAge International 1
- Human Rights Watch 5,359
- Humanitarian Issues Working Group 1
- Hungarian Helsinki Committee 3
- Immigration Advisory Service (IAS) 4
- Institute for War and Peace Reporting 3,113
- Inter-Agency Standing Committee 5
- Inter-Parliamentary Union 9
- International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) 22
- International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 412
- International Crisis Group (ICG) 80
- International Federation for Human Rights 1,947
- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) 9
- Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre 4
- IRIN 5,596
- Italy: Italian Supreme Court (Corte Suprema di Cassazione) 1
- Jamestown Foundation 3,337
- Minority Rights Group International 89
- Norwegian Refugee Council/Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (NRC/IDMC) 183
- Open Society Foundations (OSF) 1
- Overseas Development Institute (ODI) 3
- Quaker United Nations Office 1
- Radio Free Asia 6,689
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 19,658
- REDRESS 4
- Refugees International 2
- Reporters Without Borders 6,116
- Swiss Refugee Council 1
- UN Ad Hoc Committee on Refugees and Stateless Persons 2
- UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) 41
- UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) 13
- UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) 3
- UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) 1
- UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) 1
- UN General Assembly 3
- UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 1,619
- UN Human Rights Council 3
- UN Mission in Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) 2
- UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) 52
- UN Mission to South Sudan (UNMISS) 1
- UN News Service 9,377
- UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) 10
- UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) 12
- UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 1
- UN Security Council 4
- UN World Health Organization (WHO) 1
- United Kingdom: Home Office 1
- United Nations 1
- United States Congressional Research Service 12
- World Organisation Against Torture 245
- Afghanistan 4,369
- Albania 105
- Algeria 224
- American Samoa 2
- Andorra 1
- Angola 157
- Anguilla 1
- Antigua and Barbuda 1
- Argentina 90
- Armenia 1,239
- Aruba 2
- Australia 148
- Austria 83
- Azerbaijan 2,168
- Bahamas 1
- Bahrain 634
- Bangladesh 562
- Barbados 3
- Belarus 1,219
- Belgium 46
- Belize 9
- Benin 62
- Bermuda 5
- Bhutan 19
- Bolivia 92
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 446
- Botswana 24
- Brazil 330
- Brunei Darussalam 5
- Bulgaria 117
- Burkina Faso 191
- Burundi 532
- Cambodia 1,304
- Cameroon 373
- Canada 80
- Cape Verde 4
- Cayman Islands 2
- Central African Republic 868
- Chad 385
- Chile 80
- China 5,667
- Colombia 553
- Comoros 32
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the 1,552
- Congo, Republic of the 143
- Costa Rica 15
- Croatia 193
- Cuba 214
- Cyprus 65
- Czech Republic 81
- Côte d'Ivoire 663
- Denmark 32
- Djibouti 83
- Dominica 1
- Dominican Republic 81
- Ecuador 124
- Egypt 1,802
- El Salvador 85
- Equatorial Guinea 61
- Eritrea 249
- Estonia 36
- Ethiopia 525
- Falkland Islands 2
- Fiji 37
- Finland 30
- France 267
- Gabon 64
- Gambia 255
- Georgia 1,657
- Germany 231
- Ghana 94
- Greece 325
- Greenland 1
- Grenada 4
- Guam 1
- Guatemala 162
- Guinea 286
- Guinea-Bissau 138
- Guyana 10
- Haiti 201
- Holy See (Vatican City State) 20
- Honduras 297
- Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region of China) 304
- Hungary 161
- Iceland 3
- India 726
- Indonesia 393
- Iran, Islamic Republic of 3,237
- Iraq 3,821
- Ireland 15
- Israel 1,127
- Italy 185
- Jamaica 29
- Japan 72
- Jordan 368
- Kazakhstan 1,805
- Kenya 910
- Kiribati 2
- Korea, Democratic People's Republic of 601
- Korea, Republic of 119
- Kuwait 147
- Kyrgyzstan 1,854
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 321
- Latvia 76
- Lebanon 701
- Lesotho 24
- Liberia 264
- Libya 1,500
- Liechtenstein 2
- Lithuania 81
- Luxembourg 4
- Macau (Special Administrative Region of China) 7
- Madagascar 82
- Malawi 92
- Malaysia 396
- Maldives 96
- Mali 745
- Malta 20
- Mauritania 181
- Mauritius 8
- Mexico 627
- Moldova, Republic of 414
- Monaco 1
- Mongolia 74
- Montenegro 83
- Montserrat 1
- Morocco 282
- Mozambique 70
- Myanmar 2,144
- Namibia 10
- Nauru 23
- Nepal 429
- Netherlands 107
- New Caledonia 1
- New Zealand 9
- Nicaragua 44
- Niger 308
- Nigeria 1,070
- Norway 36
- Oman 79
- Pakistan 2,952
- Palau 1
- Palestine, State of 1,219
- Panama 44
- Papua New Guinea 77
- Paraguay 59
- Peru 123
- Philippines 512
- Poland 102
- Portugal 14
- Puerto Rico 2
- Qatar 83
- Romania 106
- Russian Federation 7,665
- Rwanda 297
- Saint Kitts and Nevis 2
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 3
- Saudi Arabia 617
- Senegal 223
- Serbia 1,008
- Seychelles 3
- Sierra Leone 188
- Singapore 76
- Slovakia 49
- Slovenia 67
- Solomon Islands 2
- Somalia 1,735
- South Africa 264
- South Sudan 1,048
- Spain 82
- Sri Lanka 725
- Sudan 1,447
- Suriname 13
- Swaziland 73
- Sweden 90
- Switzerland 52
- Syrian Arab Republic 4,728
- Tajikistan 1,219
- Tanzania, United Republic of 145
- Thailand 776
- The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 290
- Timor-Leste (East Timor) 104
- Togo 100
- Tokelau 1
- Tonga 2
- Trinidad and Tobago 7
- Tunisia 632
- Turkey 1,898
- Turkmenistan 553
- Turks and Caicos Islands 2
- Tuvalu 1
- U.S. Virgin Islands 2
- Uganda 627
- Ukraine 2,788
- United Arab Emirates 181
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 329
- United States of America 2,000
- Uruguay 31
- Uzbekistan 1,362
- Vanuatu 5
- Venezuela 258
- Viet Nam 927
- Western Sahara Territory 64
- Yemen 1,537
- Zambia 97
- Zimbabwe 586
- 1951 Refugee Convention 4
- Abduction 916
- Abkhazians 86
- Abuse of psychiatry 87
- Access to procedures 56
- Access to water 267
- Acholi 1
- Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations 5
- Acts of persecution 6
- Adivasis 3
- Administrative courts 8
- Admission quotas 2
- Adoption 35
- Adygey 1
- Afars 1
- Africans 20
- Afro-Colombians 8
- Age discrimination 4
- Ahmadis 64
- Ahwazi 12
- Airports 61
- Ajarians 1
- Alawi 14
- Albanians 31
- Albinism/Persons with Albinism 38
- Alevis 1
- Aliens 6
- Amazonian Indians 3
- Amhara 3
- Anti-terrorism law 171
- Apartheid 1
- Appeal / Right to appeal 87
- Arabs 82
- Arbitrary arrest and detention 2,962
- Armed attacks on camps 129
- Armed forces / Military 3,009
- Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 4,336
- Armenian 91
- Arrival 21
- Ashkaelian 3
- Assamese 1
- Assemblies of God 1
- Assyrians 13
- Asylum policy 39
- Asylum-migration nexus 88
- Asylum-seekers 773
- Atheist / Agnostic 9
- Atheist / Agnostic 2
- Avars 13
- Awá 4
- Azeri 48
- Baha'i 63
- Bail 45
- Balkars 9
- Baluchis 45
- Bantu 3
- Banyamulenge 2
- Banyarwanda 1
- Baptist 334
- Basarwa 2
- Bashkirs 4
- Basques 2
- Batwa 5
- Bedoon 42
- Belarusians 7
- Bengalis 9
- Berber 12
- Berti 1
- Bihari 4
- Blood feuds 3
- Bodos 1
- Border conflict 893
- Border controls 212
- Border crossers 195
- Bosnian 30
- Buddhist 214
- Bulgarians 3
- Burden-sharing and international co-operation 57
- Cabinda 3
- Caferis 1
- Camp management 39
- Capacity building of state institutions 16
- Catholic 143
- Ceasefire 688
- Cessation clauses 3
- Chakma 1
- Chaldean 7
- Cham 1
- Changes of circumstances in home country 1
- Chechen 462
- Cherkess 2
- Child labour 122
- Child prostitution 37
- Child soldiers 282
- Children's rights 831
- Children-at-risk 870
- Chin 18
- Chinese 27
- Chittagong Hill Tribes 8
- Christian 804
- Chukchi 1
- Chuvash 3
- Circassians 117
- Citizenship / Nationality law 12
- Civil and political rights 635
- Civil rights legislation 3
- Civil war 638
- Civilian character of asylum 1
- Climate change (including environmental migrants) 31
- Combatants / Former combatants 249
- Communal conflict / Social conflict 825
- Community development 14
- Complementary forms of protection 6
- Confidentiality 3
- Conflict prevention 150
- Conflict resolution 1,227
- Conflict situation 1,911
- Confucianist 1
- Constitutional law 20
- Contemporary forms of slavery 59
- Convention against Torture (CAT) 8
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 8
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CPRD) 1
- Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 5
- Convention refugee 1
- Copts 49
- Corruption 899
- Corsicans 1
- Cossacks 41
- Country of origin information (COI) 17
- Coup d'état 262
- Credibility assessment 1
- Crime prevention 16
- Crimean Tatars 94
- Crimes against humanity 486
- Crimes against peace 6
- Criminal justice 1,848
- Croats 15
- Cumulative grounds of persecution 1
- Customary law 3
- Czechs 1
- Dalit 9
- Darfuri 6
- Dargins 7
- Death in custody 285
- Death penalty 1,306
- Death squads 41
- Demobilization / Disarmament 268
- Democracy 430
- Denial of nationality 7
- Denial of refugee status 10
- Deportation / Forcible return 557
- Dinka 14
- Dioula 1
- Diplomatic assurances 2
- Diplomatic protection 3
- Disappeared persons 884
- Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 473
- Domestic violence 159
- Drug trafficking 233
- Druze 10
- Economic, social and cultural rights 322
- Effective protection 16
- Effective remedy 666
- Egyptians 9
- Election law 48
- Elections 3,414
- Embargo 84
- Embera 1
- Emergency legislation 16
- Emigrants 23
- Endorois 3
- Entry / Exit 17
- Entry into force 1
- Enxet 1
- Equal opportunities 30
- Equality before the law 16
- Eritreans 47
- Ethiopians 44
- Ethnic cleansing 37
- Evacuation 71
- Evangelical 15
- Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 11
- Exclusion clauses 3
- Exhaustion of domestic remedies 3
- Exiles 173
- Expedited procedures 4
- Expulsion 119
- Extradition 225
- Extrajudicial executions 1,263
- Extreme poverty 155
- False documents 12
- Falun Gong 21
- Family law 6
- Family reunification 42
- Female genital mutilation (FGM) 78
- Filipinos 7
- Flight by land, air or sea 90
- Forced labour 203
- Forced marriage 122
- Forced relocation 31
- Forced sterilization / Abortion 75
- Foreign occupation 303
- Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 1,696
- Freedom of assembly and association 2,719
- Freedom of conscience 447
- Freedom of expression 15,224
- Freedom of information 9,743
- Freedom of movement 488
- Freedom of religion 2,979
- Freedom of speech 7,865
- French 3
- Fulani 18
- Fur 1
- Gaboye 1
- Gagauz 7
- Galicians 1
- Gang related violence 55
- Gender discrimination 250
- Gender mainstreaming 32
- Gender-based persecution 108
- Generalized violence 59
- Genocide 272
- Germans 4
- Good governance 1,496
- Good offices 33
- Greeks 1
- Gross, systematic and large-scale 33
- Group / Prima facie determination 1
- HIV and AIDS 232
- Habeas corpus 5
- Haitians 27
- Han 17
- Hare Krishna 68
- Harmful traditional practices 101
- Hazara 25
- Hema 1
- Hijacking 9
- Hindu 40
- Hmong 30
- Honour killings 78
- Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 1,032
- Hui 1
- Human Rights Council 190
- Human rights activists 4,092
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 2,067
- Human rights courts 62
- Human rights law 67
- Human rights monitors 752
- Humanitarian assistance 2,087
- Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 8
- Hungarians 5
- Hutus 36
- IDP camps 250
- Illegal entry 10
- Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 108
- Illegitimate children 1
- Immigrants 61
- Immigration Detention 166
- Immigration control after entry 7
- Immigration law 5
- Immunity 91
- Impunity 1,313
- Income-generating projects 2
- Independence of judiciary 292
- Indians 2
- Indigenous persons 256
- Ingush 101
- Integration 92
- Internal armed conflict 3,673
- Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 4
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 3,078
- International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CPED) 5
- International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 1
- International Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers (ICRMW) 4
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 12
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 3
- International armed conflict 307
- International courts and tribunals 599
- International criminal law 123
- International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 281
- International protection 17
- Involuntary repatriation 30
- Iranians 43
- Jain 1
- Japanese 6
- Jehovah's Witness 439
- Jew 87
- Jurisdiction 10
- Juvenile justice system 87
- Kabards 12
- Kachin 140
- Kalenjin 6
- Kalmyks 1
- Karachay 14
- Karen 34
- Kashmiris 37
- Kazakhs 22
- Khakass 5
- Khmer 5
- Khmer Krom 4
- Kikuyu 3
- Komi 5
- Koreans 8
- Kosovar 179
- Krou 1
- Kuchi 4
- Kumyks 7
- Kuna 1
- Kurd 643
- Labour law 18
- Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 266
- Law of the sea 1
- Laws relating to religion 177
- Legal representation / Legal aid 57
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 767
- Lezgin 7
- Livelihoods 232
- Location of camps 4
- Luo 2
- Lutheran 5
- Maasai 3
- Macedonians 1
- Malays 9
- Malinke / Mandingo 2
- Mandate status 2
- Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 4
- Mapuche 12
- Maronite 2
- Mass exodus 17
- Massaleit 1
- Maternal and child health care 188
- Mayans 2
- Mbororo 1
- Medical screening 5
- Melanesians 1
- Memoranda of understanding (MOU) 2
- Mende 1
- Mennonite 4
- Mental harm 1
- Mental health 89
- Mentally disadvantaged persons 22
- Mercenaries 22
- Merina 1
- Meskhetians 10
- Messianic Jews 1
- Methodist 9
- Migrant rights 208
- Migrants 1,100
- Military courts 184
- Military law 93
- Military operations 1,743
- Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 304
- Minorities 855
- Minority rights 163
- Mon 8
- Mongols 68
- Montagnards 33
- Mormon 7
- Moros 1
- Multiple nationality 19
- Muslim 1,852
- National security / Public order 243
- Naturalization 5
- Nepalis 4
- Nogai 6
- Nomads 17
- Non-refoulement 50
- Non-self-governing territories 21
- Non-state agents of persecution 58
- Nuba 7
- Nuer 17
- Ogaden 1
- Older persons 27
- One-child policy / Family planning 33
- Opposition 3,293
- Orang Asli 1
- Orderly return 24
- Oromo 11
- Orthodox Christian 242
- Ossetians (South) 110
- Palestinian 692
- Pamiris 1
- Panjshiris 1
- Papuans 24
- Pashtun 28
- Passports 67
- Pastoralists 2
- Peace agreements 662
- Peace process 1,223
- Peacekeeping 1,134
- Pentecostal 39
- Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 302
- Persecution based on nationality 9
- Persecution based on political opinion 1,481
- Persecution of family members 117
- Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 377
- Persons not in need of international protection 14
- Persons of concern to UNHCR 26
- Persons with disabilities 146
- Physical harm 1
- Piracy 32
- Poles 16
- Police 1,733
- Political asylum 42
- Political groups 697
- Political parties 1,668
- Political situation 6,227
- Polygamy 17
- Population transfers 5
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 10
- Pre-trial detention 278
- Presbyterian 28
- Prevention of discrimination 27
- Prison or detention conditions 1,095
- Prisoners of war 95
- Proof of nationality 1
- Property restitution 32
- Prosecution vs persecution 154
- Prostitution / Commercial sex work 86
- Protection of camps 28
- Protection of civilian persons in time of war 1,602
- Protestant 362
- Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 2,234
- Public health 528
- Punjabis 2
- Racial / Ethnic persecution 190
- Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 52
- Ratification 4
- Re-entry 2
- Reception 99
- Reconciliation 451
- Referendum 269
- Refoulement 37
- Refugee / Asylum law 34
- Refugee camps 527
- Refugee identity documents 17
- Refugee seamen 170
- Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 24
- Refugees 3,244
- Refugees sur place 4
- Regional instruments 1
- Registration 70
- Reintegration 98
- Rejected asylum-seekers 29
- Rejection at border 45
- Religious discrimination 1,483
- Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 462
- Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 82
- Resettlement 206
- Residence permits / Residency 33
- Return conditions 209
- Returnees 397
- Right to a nationality 31
- Right to development 17
- Right to education 531
- Right to employment 137
- Right to family life 29
- Right to food 394
- Right to health 353
- Right to justice 426
- Right to leave 24
- Right to liberty and security 39
- Right to life 112
- Right to registration at birth 21
- Right to return 27
- Right to seek asylum 100
- Right to self-determination 164
- Rights of non-citizens 18
- Rohingya (Arakanese) 356
- Roma 140
- Romanians 1
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 1,267
- Russians 137
- Rwandans 8
- SGBV 926
- Sabean Mandean 10
- Safe country of origin 16
- Safe third country 10
- Saharawis 27
- Salafi 123
- Sale of children 28
- Sami 2
- San Bushmen 1
- Sanctions 371
- Scientologist 3
- Secondary movement 32
- Security forces 2,008
- Security situation 7,075
- Serb 96
- Serious non-political crime 46
- Seventh Day Adventist 48
- Sexual and reproductive rights 139
- Shabak 23
- Shamanism 1
- Shan 51
- Sharia law 71
- Shia 466
- Signatories and Parties 1
- Sikh 15
- Sindhis 3
- Single heads of household 2
- Sinhalese 7
- Slavs 11
- Small arms 99
- Smuggling of persons 118
- Social group discrimination 100
- Social group persecution 30
- Somalis 241
- Spontaneous return 7
- Standard of proof 3
- State of emergency 159
- State protection 37
- Statelessness 101
- Sufi 70
- Sunni 377
- Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 41
- Tajik 45
- Talysh 4
- Tamil 132
- Taoist 1
- Tatars 211
- Temporary admission 6
- Temporary protection 7
- Terrorism 3,897
- Threats / Intimidation 217
- Tibetan 991
- Tiv 2
- Torres Strait Islanders 1
- Torture 546
- Trafficking in persons 317
- Transgression of social / cultural norms 4
- Transit 26
- Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 231
- Travel documents 8
- Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 54
- Tuareg 98
- Turkmen 55
- Turks 10
- Tutsis 28
- Uighur 752
- Ukrainians 15
- Unaccompanied / Separated children 99
- Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 67
- Unlawful departure 2
- Urban refugees 28
- Urueu-Wau-Wau 1
- Uzbek 191
- Vietnamese 7
- Visas 119
- Voluntary repatriation 173
- War crimes 856
- Well-founded fear of persecution 7
- Widowed persons 5
- Witchcraft 13
- Withdrawal of nationality 12
- Witnesses 69
- Women's rights 1,147
- Women-at-risk 411
- Work permits 17
- Yazīdī 105
- Zoroastrian 6
- Zulus 1
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